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A GOOD REPRODUCTION .400 FLINTLOCK NEW ENGLAND STYLE PLAINS RIFLE SIGNED JACOB LETHER, PENN., no visible serial number,
recent, with browned octagonal 36in. barrel signed on the top-flat 'JACOB LETHER, YORKTOWN PENN.', blued 'Rocky Mountain' style fore-sight, buckhorn rear-sight, twin gold bands and platinum lined touch-hole at breech, engraved solid top-tang, colour hardened bevel-edged scroll engraved lock with stepped and pointed tail, swan-necked cock and lozenge pan, walnut half-stock with complex shaped and engraved white-metal patchbox, en-suite heel, toe and cheek-piece plates, proud bevel-edged and engraved side-plate, engraved trigger guard bow with raised lower tang, plain trigger, white metal nose-cap and ramrod throat, under-barrel rib with twin pipes and brass-tipped alloy ramrod
Provenance: This rifle was built for his own amusement by the ex Holland & Holland gunsmith, Terry Smith. It is not signed by him.
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Estimate £150-250
S1 - Sold as a Section 1 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act